Appendix
Acronyms: C's
C | Center (runway identification) or Degrees Celsius (Centigrade) |
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CA | Cloud-Air Lightning or California |
CAA | Cold Air Advection |
CADAS | Centralized Automated Data Acquisition System |
CAPE | Convective Available Potential Energy |
CAPPI | Constant Altitude PPI. |
CARIB | Caribbean |
CASCDS | Cascades |
CAT | Category or Clear Air Turbulence |
CAVOK | Visibility, cloud and present weather better than prescribed values or conditions |
CAVU | Ceiling and visibility unlimited |
Cb or CB | Cumulonimbus Cloud |
CBMAM | Cumulonimbus Mammatus |
CBS | Cumulonimbi |
Cc or CC | Cirrocumulus |
CC | Cloud-Cloud Lightning |
CCA | (or CCB, CCC ... etc, in sequence) Corrected meteorological message (message type designator) |
CCL | Convective Condensation Level |
CCLDS | Clear of clouds |
CCLKWS | Counter-clockwise |
CCSL | Cirrocumulus Standing Lenticular |
CD | Climatological Data |
CDA | NOAA or NESDIS Command and Data Acquisition (CDA) Station |
CDC | Climate Diagnostics Center |
CDFNT | Cold front |
CDFNTL | Cold frontal |
CEM | Civil Emergency Message |
CFP | Cold front passage |
CFS | Cubic Feet per Second |
CG | Cloud-Ground Lightning |
CHC | Chance |
CHCS | Chances |
CHG | Change |
CHGD | Changed |
CHGG | Changing |
CHGS | Changes |
CHSPK | Chesapeake |
Ci or CI | Cirrus |
CIG | Ceiling |
CIGS | Ceilings |
CIN | Convective Inhibition |
CISK | Conditional Instability of the Second Kind. |
CLA | Clear type of ice formation |
CLD | Cloud |
CLDNS | Cloudiness |
CLDS | Clouds |
CLEGLFGLS | Great Lakes Marine Synopsis |
CLEGLOCLE | Great Lakes Storm Outlook |
CLEGLSCLE | Great Lakes Storm Summary |
CLEICEFBO | Great Lakes Freeze-Up Outlook or Great Lakes Ice Outlook for the Opening of Navigation |
CLEICEIO | Great Lakes 5-Day Ice Outlook |
CLKWS | Clockwise |
CLR | Clear |
CLRG | Clearing |
CLRS | Clears |
CM | Centimeter |
CMPLX | Complex |
CNCL | Cancel |
CNCLD | Canceled |
CNCLG | Cancelling |
CNCLS | Cancels |
CNDN | Canadian |
CNFDC | Confidence |
CNIF | Calibration Network Information Files |
CNL | Cancel or canceled |
CNTR | Center |
CNTRD | Centered |
CNTRL | Central |
CNTRLN | Centerline |
CNTRS | Centers |
CNTY | County |
CNTYS | Counties |
CNVG | Converge |
CNVGG | Converging |
CNVGNC | Convergence |
CNVTN | Convection |
CNVTV | Convective |
CNVTVLY | Convectively |
CO | Colorado |
COE | An acronym for Corps of Engineers |
COM | Communications |
COMPAR | Compare |
COMPARD | Compared |
COMPARG | Comparing |
COMPARS | Compares |
COND | Conditions |
CONS | Continuous |
CONSHELF | Continental Shelf |
CONT | Continue(s) or continued |
CONTD | Continued |
CONTDVD | Continental Divide |
CONTG | Continuing |
CONTLY | Continually |
CONTRAILS | Condensation Trails |
CONTS | Continues |
CONUS | Continental United States. |
COOR | Co-ordinate or co-ordination |
COORD | Coordinate |
COR | Correction |
COT | At the coast |
COV | Cover or covered or covering |
CPBL | Capable |
CPC | Climate Prediction Center |
CPHC | Central Pacific Hurricane Center |
CR | Composite Reflectivity |
CRC | Composite Reflectivity Contour |
CRC | Circle |
CRCLC | Circulate |
CRCLN | Circulation |
CRNR | Corner |
CRNRS | Corners |
CRP | Critical Rainfall Probability |
CRS | Course |
Cs or CS | Cirrostratus |
CS | Combined Shear |
CSC | Combined Shear Contour |
CSDR | Consider |
CSDRBL | Considerable |
CSI | Conditional Symmetric Instability |
CST | Coast |
CSTL | Coastal |
CT | Connecticut or Cross Totals |
CTGY | Category |
CTSKLS | Catskills |
Cu or CU | Cumulus. |
CUF | Cumuliform |
CUFRA | Cumulus Fractus |
CVR | Cover |
CVRD | Covered |
CVRG | Covering |
CVRS | Covers |
CW | Cloud-Water Lightning or Continuous Wave |
CWA | County Warning Area |
CWF | Coastal Marine Forecasts |
CYC | Cyclonic |
CYCLGN | Cyclogenesis |